Australian company finds uranium reserves in Guinea

Reserves of uranium have been found in Guinea by Australian mining company Murchison United NL, Guinean Mines and Geology Minister Ahmad Kante announced. The discovery resulted from analysis of samples taken from the Firawa site at Kissidougou 600 kilometres (400 miles) south-east of the capital Conakry, the minister told an AFP journalist here.
Analysis of half the samples showed that "we are dealing with a mineral stratum of a width ranging from seven to 14 metres according to the zone, while in certain countries exploitation is carried out on mineral layers estimated in centimetres," Kante said.